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Communications COMMUNICATIONS Sir: - Recently I learned that Volume 9, Part 1 (1982), pp. 119-20 of Soviet Union con- tains a review of my book The Problems of Crime in the USSR (Springfield, III,: Charles C. Thomas, 1981) by Christopher Osakwe of Tulane University. I do not know Mr. Osakwe and he does not know me. Moreover, obviously he knows very little of my book and he happens to be wrong in his statements. To begin with, Mr. Osakwe distorted the facts of my biography. He represented me as an emigre from Azerbaidjan, in spite of the fact that my family and I lived in Moscow prior to emigration. He informed your readership that I hold a graduate law degree from a Soviet law faculty, but fails to note that I have the academic title of Senior Research Associate as confirmed by the Supreme Certifying Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR. Mr. Osakwe also failed to mention in his review that an acade- mic degree in juridical sciences, equal to the Ph.D., was conferred on me by the Acade- mic Board of the Juridical Faculty of Moscow University. Mr. Osakwe reported that I held various http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1075-1262
eISSN
1876-3324
DOI
10.1163/187633283X00045
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Abstract

COMMUNICATIONS Sir: - Recently I learned that Volume 9, Part 1 (1982), pp. 119-20 of Soviet Union con- tains a review of my book The Problems of Crime in the USSR (Springfield, III,: Charles C. Thomas, 1981) by Christopher Osakwe of Tulane University. I do not know Mr. Osakwe and he does not know me. Moreover, obviously he knows very little of my book and he happens to be wrong in his statements. To begin with, Mr. Osakwe distorted the facts of my biography. He represented me as an emigre from Azerbaidjan, in spite of the fact that my family and I lived in Moscow prior to emigration. He informed your readership that I hold a graduate law degree from a Soviet law faculty, but fails to note that I have the academic title of Senior Research Associate as confirmed by the Supreme Certifying Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR. Mr. Osakwe also failed to mention in his review that an acade- mic degree in juridical sciences, equal to the Ph.D., was conferred on me by the Acade- mic Board of the Juridical Faculty of Moscow University. Mr. Osakwe reported that I held various

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The Soviet and Post Soviet ReviewBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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